eBay, Microsoft Join R&D Rush in New York

eBay will add 200 developers, data scientists and statisticians in New York as it ramps up a new research and development center focused on big data and improving eBay’s recommendations technology.

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The office at 625 6th Ave. in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood will open this fall and will be headed by Chris Dixon, founder of Hunch, which eBay bought in November. Twenty-five Hunch staff members will move to the new site.

There is a great trend propelling tech forward in New York, which started when Google opened up a large office there. We will be hiring new people and looking at expanding positions in the future. We are very excited.

eBay opened an R&D center in Seattle in January that focuses on data mining. It also has centers in Austin, Portland, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, and Bangalore.